Preparedness for when

VJsmum

Count me in on the mob

Can also do Friday - and tuesday, wednesday and thursday

Do you know what, though? I loved working in a factory - it really brought me out of myself, as did my barmaid job. The supermarket was 'meh' and i'd rather not clean toilets in a working men's club again if I can help it......:eek:

moneyistooshorttomention

You're a hard task mistress GQ - 6 am in the morning! Whew!

I do think all employees should be treated reasonably personally - and, if a night's sleep can reasonably be said to be 10pm-6am or 11pm-7am then I think a bit of "time travel" to have got up/breakfasted/showered/ready for collection when not getting up until 6-7am might prove just a tad difficult:rotfl:

Mind you - if I manage to ever invent a suitable "time travel machine" - then can I plead the 5th Amendment (well - some Amendment or other - dont know which it would be....:rotfl:) to hang onto enough profits to be able to swop house (only to a reasonable level one)/get it "finished" and then give the rest away to Good Causes?:)

Though I know I would be annoyed personally if people were deliberately making themselves "unemployable" by refusing reasonable level work with reasonable conditions, etc.

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As pointed out on the phone by DD1 a few seconds ago the most senior politician currently in position uncontestedly is TIM FALLON the leader and only MP of the Lib Dems.....now you see why I came, I saw and I LAUGHED!!!

Sorry I just seem to have deleted the other 7 Lib Dem MPs, bet they wouldn't have liked that one little bit!

VJsmum

Today i have been to a beautiful funeral of a much loved lady (best friends mum, who i have known for 40 years). it puts things into perspective. she was married for 70 years :T her grieving widower was the personification of dignity.

they were a couple who worked all their lives and brought up children to do the same. They showed me much kindness.

Don't know where i am going with this (i am on the train, with wine :beer: so may ramble), the world needs more kind people like these....

Today i make (yet another) vow to be kinder....

VJsmum

Apart from the mob, of course....




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GreyQueen

Money, you've worked a clerical career. Factories normally run 24/7. Which means that some people will be starting a shift at 06.00 and working until 14.00, another shift starting 14.00 until 22.00 and another shift running 22.00 until 06.00. My parents were factory hands, and Dad worked shifts. I've worked the 14.00-22.00 (or two-til-ten in old money) for months at a time. Except employment legislation allowed the employer to make it 2.30-til-ten and thus screw us all out of a shift allowance - barstewarding household name company, too.

When I was a postie, I started my workday at 06.00 for Mon-Fri and at 04.30 am on Saturday. When I was a delivery driver, I worked from 07.00. My team have to start well before 08.00, and our opposite shift are available in all the hours which we aren't. Nurses commonly work 12 hour shifts. Which means your commute (x 2) plus eating, bathing and sleeping, have to fit into the 12 non-working hours each day.

Very many jobs start at 07.00 am which means you're on the road by 06.00 in a lot of cases. If you're out and about just about that time, in small towns and in cities, you'll see minibuses picking up small groups of workers. They're driving them out to factories and holiday camps etc to work as cleaners; they don't pay enough for most of their workers to afford a vehicle to get them to the workplace, so they have to be fetched from a central pick-up point.

There's one such pick-up spot about 2 minutes' walk from Shoebox Towers - we early risers see all sorts of things.

pineapple

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...
I don't know if this is nonsense or not but I followed a claim in a Guardian post that there are plans to pull the EU together more tightly - including the requirement for a majority to approve a country leaving by next year.
Here are the links. Someone better than me can maybe pick holes in it.

https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/fact-if-the-uk-doesnt-have-a-signed-deal-by-april-2017-brexit-is-in-grave-danger/
'Spelling it out: we are subject to EU law over the next four years, but the Article 50 window of opportunity is just nine months. In those extra 3+ years, the EC could easily introduce and pass a directive changing the secession process further to make it impossible for the UK to leave. Even without that, the Commission can demand we get a QMV before Brexit will be allowed'.

https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/brexitmarch-2017-stitch-up-rebutting-the-charge-of-nonsense-about-earlier-slogpost/

Happy reading

moneyistooshorttomention

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

As pointed out on the phone by DD1 a few seconds ago the most senior politician currently in position uncontestedly is TIM FALLON the leader and only MP of the Lib Dems.....now you see why I came, I saw and I LAUGHED!!!

You'd better put in an amendment on Wikipedia to clarify this.

It is still saying the same as it did several days ago. That being that the Lib Dem MPs currently are:
Tom Brake, Alistair Carmichael, Nick Clegg, Tim Farron, Normal Lamb, Greg Mulholland, John Pugh, Mark Williams = 8 of them

Wiki needs to know if 7 of them have vanished since the 2015 election.

[Deleted User]

OK top honcho of 8, wishful thinking to reduce them to only 1.

moneyistooshorttomention

Call me idealist still then GQ in some respects - as I didnt/dont agree with people being expected to work antisocial hours (unless its their genuine personal choice to do so of course).

Ultimately - we are all human beings and need a reasonable personal "daily timetable" built around that fact.

EDIT; It's an argument I've had to have personally - more than once! - in an office context even. That being that it wasnt reasonable to expect people to start work before a reasonable time - and they were simply unable to come up with a logical reason as to why people should. So they lost...